Long Prate Poems

A Debate

The Atheist
I see no reason for a god
Indeed for any type of god at all
I look around at all the churchmen
The pompous richly dressed ones
And wonder what their founder would have thought
And then at...

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Booby trapped within apartment unit b44

Circa August 18th, 2021
three bajillion years ago to date,
nevertheless I count blessings, 
so please do not hashtag me 
as worse than an ingrate 
or one whose dire financial straits 
attributed...

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VERSE 1:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES.... 
I think this is the time to tell you I love you,
And I don't prate to receive woefully an excuse, 
Even if you cling to it as unprecedented news,
Nothing probably...

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Canto I: The Words of Laozi  

The Divinely Illustrious Sage  
Prays for every soul to heed:
That neither woe nor weal
Heaven has foreordained,
But wrought by men alone,
The fruits of virtue and vice
Pursue the begetter...

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Lemme titillate thee
regarding myself daily soldiering thru breastworks
read out loud to experience where dangerfield lurks
twenty five years a husband unknown marital perks
bachelorhood to die for, cuz warp and weft
courtesy webbed and wedded bliss
incorporates life threatening...

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He is my mirror, 
Just what I wanted him to be!
His smile spreads permeating delight.
His storge love is my strength. 
My achievement, my smile, my pride!
My upright and infallible child!
His prates, sanguinity, dreams and ambitions,
Are...

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Wistful Accursed Penniless Fate...God Dime Mitt!
(neither defamation, nor blasphemy meant, sans Title)

Despite ingestion of
     anti anxiety medications
     ferocious hellish onslaught
     pummels me aback
finds...

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Love is some thing i entreat 
Of which without it my eyes are in  the murk of picket -eye lids,
 It is a Croft on which our spirits  first grub
To then be able...

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Tiresome errands (Chanso or Chanson)

For many of us, errands are so boring;
Many crucial things to do to show status
rather than wasting time doing routine jobs;
Like, taking Selfie in a new dress, so glaring;

Pushing the photo...

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This Bumptious Poet ©

Once again dear reader,
     aye strive to regale ye
with in apropos prate,
     (nee inane) vain
null gibberish in order to suss stain
mine infamous reputation
 ...

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I see thee yet, mine eyes on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Thus to mine eyes, o'er th'one half world 'pon the sacred curtained sleep,
Seek thou sure and firm, set stepp'd earth nigh summon...

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I sat in my yard, revering to the sublime splendor. 
A Setting sun lighted wheat fields with a gold fender. 
The universe is a celestial art by a creator in the sky,
Waves of fuchsia purple swept over...

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They prate
They condemn
They spew special interest bile
These champions of society are but
One-sided and silly


They claim to have their finger
On the pulse of society
But write from the view-point
Of middle class insensitivity

Riots and mayhem bemuses
Corruption and graft...

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Villanelle: No curse worse than the place and name you inherit to hate

No curse worse than the place and name you inherit to hate
There where you first blink your own coffin you have to nail
The...

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A poison pen
And a hypocritical conscience
Can so easily be cloaked in 
High morality

Prate on
Knock them down
With words
Slay them in the name of
Public opinion

Write on
Right all the supposed wrongs
That provides fodder to pay your bills
With that...

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This time of trouble so torn by terror,
time of deep darkness and all-devouring death,
this time of woe, high wages and much wenching
is no time for pleasant pastorals and praises.
I wander weary this winding way and...

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Villanelle: Write only as if this were your last deathbreath day

Write only as if this were your last deathbreath day
As if those words gouged out paper or tape
Words distilled from a lifetime’s work and play

Write...

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The human will, that force unseen,
The offspring of a deathless soul
Can hew a way to any goal, 
Though walls of granite intervene.”

“You will be what you will be, 
Let failure find its false content
In that...

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I Have No Time for You

By Elton Camp

“I’ve so many important things to do
That I’ve no time to spend with you”

“The inane words you say 
Don’t interest me anyway”

“The memories you wish to share
To hear...

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I am Irish,
I do not patter a brogue, not lilt, or prate the Celtic.
I’m annexed English, cockney, a dead queens piglish,
chameleon tongued.

Something took me, shook me like a spade
until an un-rooted soil fell, a ground...

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All hearts are young and gay in Spring
When youth's charade is in full swing.
Toward love's sweet well you shyly slink,
Once there you do not hesitate to drink
Or stop to think what will tomorrow bring.

Youth, flagrantly...

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I do a lot of good unconsciously for I care greatly 
I say a lot that is true that bothers me 
I write to reach the heart and mind of society 
I prate a lot...

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Everybody wants to be king
They crown themselves by opining
And can only see everyone else’s sins

Everybody wants to rule
And conquer all with hypocrisy
They prate and condemn
While shielding their transparent sins

So many rulers make for a great...

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The voices in my head spake thus:
"Pray heed a word from all of us
should what we prate to you make sense
as host we deem you somewhat dense

'Tis folly to believe we're real
to banish us would...

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My dear boy, never waste food
said the Dad; no way it's good;
Do you know there are thousands
of people in surroundings
who can't afford to have lunch
or some crispy food to munch.
Take only that much in plate
that...

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